Full Text

The complete electronic text of an article is called the full text. Some databases, like EBSCO's Academic Search Premier and ProQuest Research Library, provide entire articles online. Databases that offer full text articles will have one or both of these symbols next to them: 

What if there are pictures or graphs with the article that you want to see?

Increasingly database vendors are including scanned versions of articles in pdf (portable document format).  This format uses Adobe Acrobat to view and is essentially an electronic copy of the article.  So, it will include all the formatting including pictures, charts, graphs, etc.